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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to issue final guidance that would defer for a year the effective date on which private and public entities would have to account for fair value measurements.
February 8 -
An advisory committee to the Securities and Exchange Commission intends to make its decision on Feb. 11 on whether to issue an eagerly anticipated report on improvements to financial reporting.
February 8 -
The American Institute of CPAs and Fiduciary360 have published the U.S. edition of a handbook for investment advisors.
February 7 -
The IASC Foundation has set four principles for a funding system in 2008 for its activities, which include its work overseeing the International Accounting Standards Board.
February 6 -
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services has introduced a service that issues fairness opinions on the consideration offered to companies on financial deals such as mergers, acquisitions, going-private transactions and divestitures.
February 5 -
The American Institute of CPAs has written to the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service about proposed regulations for automatic contributions to 401(k) plans, as well as cafeteria plans.
February 5 -
Every once and a while you come across a firm that knocks your socks off. Dezan Shira & Associates (dezshira.com) is just such a firm.
February 5 -
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said he expects to see the SEC start allowing U.S. companies to file financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards in the year ahead.
February 5 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released expanded versions of two reports it had originally issued in 2005 on two audit firms, highlighting problems with technical competence.
February 4 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a cost-benefit study of the upcoming attestation requirement for smaller companies under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
February 4